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Machine Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
- Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
- Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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